More than 20 public service employees resigned from the billionaire Trump advisor Elon Musknment of Government Efficiency (Doge) on Tuesday and said they refused to use their technical knowledge to “reduce critical public services”.
“We swore to serve the American people and to maintain our oath in the constitution across the presidential administrations,” wrote the 21 employees in a joint letter of resignation whose copy was received by the Associated Press. “However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor these obligations.”
The employees also warned that many of the Musk registered people to help him reduce the size of the Federal Government under President Donald Trump’s administration, political ideologues that did not have the necessary skills or experience for the task before them.
The mass tear of engineers, data scientists and product managers comes in the middle of a flood of court healing to clean up the federal employees listed by Muschus and Trump, who have tried to stop, stop or handle the efforts to dismiss or to stop for the second of thousands of government workers. From jobs.
“We will not use our skills as technologists to affect the core government systems, to endanger the sensitive data of the Americans or to reduce critical public services,” they wrote.
The White House did not immediately answer a request for comments on Tuesday morning.
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The employees who have resigned worked for those once mentioned as a digital service united states. USD was founded over a decade ago to improve the services for veterans and helped create a free state -run portal, so that the control filers did not have to go through third parties such as Turbotax.
All of this resignation on Tuesday had previously held senior roles at Tech company such as Google and Amazon and wrote in their letter of resignation that they joined the government from a feeling of public service.
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The slash-based and burning musk leads from what Trump originally outlined during the 2024 presidential campaign. Doge, an allusion to Musk’s favorite cryptocurrency meme coin, was initially presented as a Blue Ribbon Commission that would exist outside the government.
The Attorney General from several states, which were led by democratic civil servants, have filed a lawsuit and argued that Doge illegally accesses confidential information. A judge on Monday agreed to prevent the Federal Ministry and the Office for Personnel Management in relation to a lawsuit submitted by unions, to temporarily prevent the records with sensitive personal information on Doge representatives. The US district judge Deborah Boardman in Greenbelt, Md.
Despite his name, Doge is not an official government department that has traditionally been set up by congress files. Trump and Musk said that “hundreds of millions” of dollars are already saved, but they have not delivered any detailed support for these claims.
On Monday, Doge published an updated list of almost 2,300 contracts that agencies have ended in the entire federal government in recent weeks. Data published on DOGE’s “Wall of Quitts” show that more than a third of the contracting cornation, 794, will probably not achieve any savings. This is usually due to the fact that the total value of the contracts has already been fully obliged, which means that the government is legally prescribed to issue the funds for the goods or services they have purchased, and in many cases has already done so.
“It is as if you are confiscated used ammunition after it has been shot when there is nothing left. There is no political goal,” said Charles Tiefer, a legal professor from the University of Baltimore, and expert in state contract law. “The termination of so many contracts obviously doesn’t matter to save money.”
Federal assisted experienced more confusion than Musk demanded that their latest services to be explained by the end of Monday or risk. Even if this happened, the office for personnel management informed the agency’s leaders that their employees did not have to react on Monday after the deadline of 11:59 p.m.
“‘Move Fast and Break Things’ can be acceptable for someone who has a company and has the risk. And if things are not going well, the damage will be divided. But if they break things in the government, they break things, people, people belong to people who have not registered for this, ”said Cordell Schachter, who was the Chief Information Officer of the US Transport Ministry until the last month.
“Significant security risks”
The day after Trump’s inauguration, the 21 employees wrote in a number of interviews that predicted the secret and annoying work of Doge. According to the employees, the visitors of the White House, some of which would not give their names, the non -partisan employees grouped over their qualifications and politics.
“Some of these interviewers refused to identify themselves, asked questions about political loyalty, tried to put colleagues against each other, and showed only limited technical skills,” the employees wrote in their letter. “This process has created considerable security risks.”
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Around 40 employees were released in the office at the beginning of this month. The shots gave the government’s ability to manage and protect its own technological footprint, she wrote a devastating blow from the government.
“These highly qualified civil servants were working on modernizing social security, the services of the veterans, tax registration, health care, disaster relief, study assistance and other critical services,” says the letter of withdrawal. “Your distance endangers millions of Americans who rely on these services every day.
Of the 40 people who let go at the beginning of this month, only one engineer was a pronounced and politically active employee named Jonathan Kamens, who said in an interview with the AP In chats with colleagues.
